The Weekend Planet

Mare Nostrum means ‘our sea’. To the ancient Romans it was the Mediterranean - a sea with European, African and Asian shores. Notwithstanding pianist Jan Lundgren’s Swedish nationality, this beautifully unusual trio has a Mediterranean flavour. Mare Nostrum is the first three-way exchange between Jan, Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu and the French (ancestrally, Italian) accordionist and bandoneon virtuoso Richard Galliano. Each is highly eclectic, highly individual, a noted leader. All are open-eared and conversational - quietly brilliant players who don’t shout out their virtuosity. The music is mostly their own, but they also do lovely, surprising things to pieces by Jobim, Ravel and Trénet.

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Playlist

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BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
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ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
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Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs

’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SUN 10.2.07.

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THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )

CD CUT 1, ’JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’s kora, Danny Thompson’s beautiful double bass and Ketama’s flamenco guitars )

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CD CUT 3, ’EU NAO EXISTO SEM VOCE’
MUSIC BY ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM {WHICH ORIGINALLY CAME WITH A LYRIC BY VINICIUS DE MORAES)
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
2: 55
( duo, here: Galliano’s accordion and Fresu’s muted trumpet and open flugelhorn. A very tender setting of a Brazilian love song. Its title is oft- rendered in English as ’I have no existence without you’. It is perhaps better in English as ’without you, I am nothing’ )

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CD CUT 10, ’LEO, ESTANTE NUM INSTANTE’
HERMETO PASCOAL
D.R.
DREYFUS JAZZ FDM 36606-2
( This may or may not still be available In Australia through Newmarket: www.newmarketmusic.com
worldwide: www.dreyfusrecords.com )
RICHARD GALLIANO - ’DUO’ (FROM HIS TRIPLE-CD BOXED SET, ’CONCERT INEDITS’)
5: 31
(in concert: Galliano’s accordion and Portal’s bass clarinet - plus vocal exclamations. Becomes a wild, exuberant, improvisatory hyper-fleet whirl-throb-dance. Its Brazilian composer is one of the most prolific {and remarkable} living composers.

YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT HERMETO PASCOAL?
{aka ’o bruxo’- the sorcerer - author of more than two and a half thousand compositions. }

This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeto_Pascoal )

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CD CUT 10, ’OPEN YOUR MIND’
JAN LUNDGREN
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
4: 03
(Lyrical, spacious, melodious but also open and conversational: The Sardinian Paolo on muted trumpet, the Swedish composer on piano. Accordionist Richard plays accordina - a hybrid of button accordion and chromatic harmonica )

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2222
CD CUT 4, ’JOHN HANGING’
JOSEPH LEE HENRY (AKA JOE HENRY)
C 1990 TRUE NORTH MUSIC/ ALMO MUSIC CORP (ASCAP)
A&M COYOTE 75021 5315 2
(I think this CD is no longer in print)
JOE HENRY - ’SHUFFLETOWN’
2: 34
(not what it seems: very catchy, with fine, strong ac bass from Cecil McBee, Don Cherry’s trumpet plus dobro, ac guitar, congas and Henry’s vocal.. depicts a suicide. From 1990. A decade later Ornette Coleman played on a Joe Henry album - his only appearance on a ’pop’, song-oriented album. After having politely declined Joe’s invitation, Ornette’s attention was drawn {not by Joe himself} to this album, on which Don - Ornette’s friend and former colleague - had enjoyed playing. Ornette listened. He liked it. He then took up Joe’s invitation, after all. Ornette has a superb cameo role on ’Richard Pryor addresses a tearful nation’ - a song on Joe Henry’s CD ’Scar’.. worth seeking out! )

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CD CUT 7, ’SONIA’S NIGHTMARE’
PAOLO FRESU
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
4; 02
(Lundgren’s very spare piano alone, then with Fresu’s ditto, perfectly-poised muted trumpet atop, then enter Galliano’s accordion too.. )

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CD CUT 2, ’JORDAN’
ORNETTE COLEMAN
PHRASE TEXT, INC (2006)
SOUND GRAMMAR SG 11593
( no Australian distributor.
Available worldwide via www.ornettecoleman.com )
ORNETTE COLEMAN - ’SOUND GRAMMAR’
6: 20
(’Live’, fleet and ’free’. Even before you know that Ornette was seventy-five at the time of this Oct ’05 concert, his opening alto sax eruption is astonishing, as is his more extended sax flight: ablaze with energy, joy, invention. He also plays ok- but-less-wondrous trumpet on this. The whole band is marvellously alive-alert. Greg Cohen’s plucks one ac bass, arco specialist Tony Falanga bows the other, with drummer Denardo Coleman - Ornette’s son.

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE STILL-AMAZING ORNETTE?

This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_Coleman

ORNETTE COLEMAN’S FIRST-EVER AUSTRALIAN GIGS ALERT
{Sydney and Adelaide, only. He’s in Hong Kong, in-between them)

Sydney:
Sunday February 24th, Sydney Opera House

Adelaide:
Monday March 3, Festival Theatre, as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts
Full detail/bookings via:
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/Show/Detail.aspx?p=5&id=23&c=1

YOU’D LIKE TO HEAR A RECENT ABC RADIO NATIONAL INTERVIEW WITH ORNETTE COLEMAN?

He was on ’The Music Show’ with Andrew Ford on February 2nd.
Until March 1st its audio is yours to demand from ’The Music Show’ site.

’The Music Show’ with Andrew Ford - Saturdays10am-noon,
Repeat broadcast Sat night 8pm-10pm
Website (includes audio): www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow )

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CD CUT 11, ’LIBERTY WALTZ’
RICHARD GALLIANO
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
4: 07
( limber and lyrical, celebratory waltz: definitely dancing. The composer’s accordion in duet with Lundgren’s piano )

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CD CUT 4, ’ELIZA’
TRAD ARR JACQUES PELLEN
PUB NOT SPEC
NAIVE Y225 080
(Possibly available In Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution.
worldwide: www.naive.fr be warned: not an Anglo-friendly site
Guitarist-arranger Jacques Pellen can be emailed: pellen.jacques@wannadoo.fr }
JACQUES PELLEN - `LES TOMBES DE LA NUIT’
5: 13
(’live’, ingenious and beautiful instrumental arrangement of a haunting traditional Breton song {one of Alan Stivell’s favorites}: Pellen’s guitar and Paolo Fresu’s muted trumpet to fore with electrified harp, ac bass, brushes, vibes, flute and harmonica )

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CD CUT 5, ’...AND THE HALF LIGHT’
PETER KNIGHT
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
JAZZHEAD HEAD085
( www.jazzhead.com
Way Out West site: www.myspace.com/wayoutwestmelbourne )
WAY OUT WEST - ’OLD GROOVES FOR NEW STREETS’
9: 19 ( complete )
(AUSTRAL PERF AND COMP: new, impressionistic, Melbourne, multicultural music - free of ’exotica’-corn. The leader/composer is the trumpeter. Ac bassist Howard Cairns alone, then the ensemble enters. Dung Nguyen plays a modified electric guitar { with some of the qualities of a dan tranh - the plucked multi-stringed Vetnamese board zither } , Dave Beck and Ray Pereira on various percussion and Paul Williamson on tenor saxophone.

WAY OUT WEST GIGS ALERT (Melbourne/ Adelaide)
{their schedule is always flagged here: www.myspace.com/wayoutwestmelbourne )

Melbourne:
Saturday 9th Feb 4 pm
Ballarat St Yarraville, Yarraville, Melbourne for the Yarraville Festival
The Festival is a free event of many parts, that day, daytime.
Full details, here: www.yarravillefestival.com.au

Adelaide:
Thursday 28th Feb 6 pm
Garden of Earthly Delights, Rundle Park, East Terrace

The Garden of Unearthly Delights runs Feb 15th through March 15th
Full details/bookings:
www.gardenofunearthlydelights.com.au/home.html

The Garden is part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Feb 22- March 16th.
Full festival details :
www.adelaidefringe.com.au)

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2305
CD CUT 6, ’BIG RIVER’
JIMMY NAIL
PUB NOT SPEC
SELF-ISSUED CD WITH NO CATALOG NUMBER
( probably available from Bob’s gigs.
Definitely available from his site: www.bobfoxmusic.com )
BILLY MITCHELL, BOB FOX - ’B & B’
4: 15
(’live’: involves both of the fellow Tyne-siders, but is primarily a vehicle for Bob’s mellifluous vocal and deft ac guitar. In part a ’post-coal’ lament, but is not merely that - has optimism, pride and defiance, too.

BOB FOX AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT { extensive, through to late March)

The full details - with web-links - are here {via its ’gigs’prompt} :
www.bobfoxmusic.com

These are the first few of his many gigs:

Thurs 14th Feb Braidwood Folk Club
Anglican Hall,Wilson Street,Braidwood.NSW 2622 tel: 02 4842 8142t

Fri 15th The Folkus Room
Serbian Cultural Club,Heard Street,Mawson,Canberra.ACT

Sat 16th Cafe Church Space
37 St.John’s Rd/Colburne Ave,Glebe,Sydney.NSW 2037
tel: 0427 958788/02 9698 2206

Sun 17th Starting 2pm Illawarra Folk Club,Wollongong City Diggers Club,
corner Burelli/Church St,Wollongong.NSW 2500

Fri 22nd East Brisbane Bowls Club
Mowbray Park,Lytton Road, East Brisbane.QLD
tel: 07 3379 4178 )

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CD CUT 13, ’MA MÈRE L’OYE’ ( MOTHER GOOSE )
MAURICE RAVEL, ARR BY RICHARD GALIANO
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
4: 24
(Fresu’s muted trumpet, Lundgren’s piano, Galliano’s accordion. As irresistibly beautiful/intimate as it surprising. Ravel’s lush orchestral suite - inspired by fairy stories - had begun as a series of piano solos, for the amusement of a friend’s children )

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CD CUT 15, ’SKYLARK’
HOAGY CARMICHAEL AND JOHNNY MERCER
PUB NOT SPEC
TOUCHE MUSIC TMcCD013
( in Australasia through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.henk.com.au
worldwide: www.touchemusic.se )
ELISE EINARSDOTTER, OLLE STEINHOLTZ - ’SUMMER NIGHT’
5: 22
(Lena Willemark sings, well - in Swedish-accented English - accompanied only by Einarsdotter’s piano. More playful-erotic than most treatments of this well-loved ballad)

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2321
CD CUT 8, ’CHAT PITRE’ ( CLOWN CAT )
RICHARD GALLIANO
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
2: 59
( Quirky, mobile, definitely French and with a whiff of ’circus’. Has a grin and a whiff of ’noir’ - something darker - too. Fresu’s muted trumpet, Lundgren’s piano, Galliano’s accordion )

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CD CUT 12, ’SKYLARK’
COMP HOAGY CARMICHAEL/JOHNNY MERCER
PUB NOT SPEC
COLUMBIA 475697 2
STAN GETZ (WITH JIMMIE ROWLES) - ’THE PEACOCKS’
3: 59
(discreetly stride-accented ballad duet for Rowles’ piano and Getz’s exquisite, soaring tenor sax - recorded circa 1975 )

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2330
CD CUT 15, ’VARVINDAR FRISKA’ ( SPRING BREEZES )
TRAD, ARR JAN LUNDGREN
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
3: 09
(haunting, instrumental setting of a traditional Swedish song - a popular one, traditionally sung on Walpurgis night to mark winter’s end. Ingrid Bergman sang it in the 1945 film ’The Bells of St Mary’s’. Here, performed by pianist Jan and {muted} trumpeter Paolo )

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CD CUT 3, ’SIR AZ UT ELOTTEM’ ( THE ROAD IS CRYING IN FRONT OF ME)
TRAD, ARR JACKIE ORSZACZKY AND JAMES GREENING
(PRESUMABLY) PUBLICDOMAIN/ APRA
HU 001
(email: vitamin@comcen.com.au
Tel: 612 9130 2989
Fax: 612 9365 0769 )
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JAMES - ’WAYBACK’
4: 16
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR.....didjeridoo, piccolo elec. bass, bowed ac bass, trombone and alto sax on haunting/edgy version of traditional Hungarian song . Jackie, who is the singer and he is the piccolo elec.-bassist.

JACKIE ORSZACKY {1948- 2008} DIED ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3RD

The Hungarian-Australian was an enormously influential, gifted and generous individual - one of the key figures in Australian music, across genres.
Discover more - via its links to various tributes - here:
www.orszaczky.com

AND
JACKIE ORSZACKY ON RADIO NATONAL ALERT
If you missed yesterday’s edition of ’The Music Show’, its audio will live on for four more weeks, here: www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow

’The Music Show’ with Andrew Ford - Saturdays10am-noon,
Repeat broadcast Sat night 8pm-10pm )

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CD CUT 6, ’FANITULLEN’
TRAD NORWEGIAN, ARR MATTIAS PÉREZ
NORDIC TRADITION
NORDIC TRADITION NTCD10
( no Australian distributor.
www.nordictradition.com
CDs available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
MATTIAS PÉREZ TRIO - ’MP3’
3: 44
( Mattias, solo, playing a cross-tuned acoustic guitar on his very nice version of a dancing traditional tune from Norway The tune’s {probably, Hardanger} fiddle ancestry is audible)

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2344
CD CUT 9, ’VALZER DEL RITORNO’
PAOLO FRESU
PUB NOT SPEC
ACT MUSIC ACT 9466-2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
PAOLO FRESU, RICHARD GALLIANO, JAN LUNDGREN - ’MARE NOSTRUM’
4: 23
(genial, mid-up waltz for the Sardinian composer’s flugelhorn, Galliano’s accordion, Lundgren’s piano )

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CD CUT 9, ’VILNA’
ALEXANDER OLSHANETSKY {AKA ’OLSHANSKY’} AND L. WOLFSON, ARR BEN WINKELMAN
(PRESUMABLY, RESPECTIVELY ) PUBLIC DMAIN/ APRA
JAZZHEAD HEAD080
(in Australia, through MGM
www.jazzhead.com )
BEN WINKELMAN TRIO - ’THE SPANISH TINGE’
7: 15
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Pianist-arranger Ben with ac bassist Sam Anning and drummer Ben Van Vanderwal plus a gracefully-deployed ’horn choir’- trumpeter Paul Williamson, alto saxist Lachlan McLean, tenor saxist Julien Wilson and trombonist Ben Gillespie. It’s a setting of a klezmer song which depicted Vilna {Vilnus} as ’the Jerusalem of Lithuania’. In 1941 the Nazis destroyed its Jewish ghetto and most of the city’s Jewish inhabitants. The composer of the melody had an extraordinary life.

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT ALEXANDER OLSHANETSKY {1892-1946}?

His much-travelled life story { Russia, China, USA and Cuba! } is here:
www.milkenarchive.org/artists/artists.taf?artistid=88

BEN WINKELMAN TRIO GIGS ALERT (Victoria

Sat Feb 16, 8pm - Knox Community Arts Centre, Mountain Hwy, Bayswater Thurs Feb 21, 8pm - COPACC, cnr Gellibrand & Rae Sts, Colac.
Sat Feb 23, 8pm - Kingston Arts Centre, Nepean Hwy, Moorabin
Sun Feb 24, 3.30pm - Cardinia Cultural Centre, Lakeside Blvd, Pakenham

All gigs are Ben Winkelman / Sam Anning / Ben Vanderwal
www.benwinkelman.com )

2358
CD CUT 4, ’ALL BLUES’
COMP MILES DAVIS
PUB NOT SPEC, BUT I THINK IT’S JAZZ HORN MUSIC
COLUMBIA/ LEGACY 487496 2 (THROUGH SONY)
MILES DAVIS - ’KIND OF BLUE’
0: 50 ( excerpt )
(original, 1959 version of jazz classic - Miles’s muted trumpet, tJohn Coltran’s tenor enor and Julian ’Cannonball’Adderley’s alto sax, Ron Carter’s ac bass, Bill Evans’ piano and Jimmy Cobb’s drums.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’KIND OF BLUE’ DOCUMENTARY ALERT

Improvising a Miracle - Kind of Blue in retrospect
Saturday 16 February, 5.05 pm
Repeated on Friday 22 February, 3. 05 pm

If there’s only one jazz album in your music collection, it’s probably Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Universally recognised as a timeless masterpiece, it has sold more copies than any other jazz release. On the eve of its 50th anniversary, Cathy Peters looks at the album’s significance, along with jazz author Ashley Kahn and Australasian jazz veterans Mike Nock and Allan Browne.
It’s a remarkable album in many ways. It pioneered a new approach to jazz improvisation and harmony and featured some of the most outstanding musicians of the time. Recorded in two short studio sessions, it has an immediacy that’s palpable. Whether you’re a longtime lover of this album or have just discovered it, this program offers many insights into Miles, his musicians and how they made this timeless classic.

Producer: Cathy Peters
Sound Engineer: Russell Stapleton

On ’Into The Music’, with Robyn Johnston
First broadcast: Saturday, 5.05 pm
Repeat broadcast: Friday, 3.05 pm
www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic
Audio can be demanded from website for four weeks after radio broadcast )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer